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Show - r WHAT THU PKOPLE OKTHE UNITED STATES CONSUME Of The Products of The World COMPARED WITH OTHER - " NATIONS. Tho annual product ot codec fir the intiro world is stated to bo rXtt.OOO tons, ol which tho United Stales consumes 205,000 tons, or SO per rent Tho iron production of the world Is 25,000,000 Ions, of this wo use over 8,000,000 or one third. The steel product of the woild is 10,500,000 tons, of winch tills country uses ouo third. The total product pro-duct of the world lu cotton is staled to be 11,151,000 bales of -100 lbs. each, of which this country consumes more than u quarter. Wc consume nearly n third of the world's wool our consumption lielngeslenintcd nt 000,000,000 onnds. "We consume a third of the India rubber nl tlio world; nenrly -10 er cent, of nil the coal mined, and more than half the coal iirodtlccd. The sugar crop of the iorld is stated to bo 5,114,020 Ions nnd of this wc consume 1,422,000 tons or 28 lierscut. If wo make n comparison of the dill"-rent dill"-rent countries, and take one article ot universal consumption to servo as n criterion wo will find thu following: The consumption of the United States of cotton is 17,' a pounds per annum each inhabitant : In (Ireat llrltnn It is 7-50 pounds ot each Inhabitant not one bnll that of the United Hlntes In Cici ninny 7-0:1 lbs. In Atistrhi,.5-27 11h. not one llilid the avcruge of this country count-ry lu Italy 5-0 lb-); lu llusfia, ". Ill not one tilth our nvernge. Our population popul-ation il should bo remembered ii less than one twentyieth of the world, nnd yet we consume more than a quarter of i he world's production of this great article. |